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Could this be the breakthrough in tackling shipping’s climate impact?

Posted by Jan Prahm December 20th, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010
By Transport & Environment (T&E)
Shipping could become the first industry to have a global carbon dioxide reduction measure. A legislative process has been set in motion at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) which, if approved, could see obligatory energy efficiency standards for new ships come into effect [...]

U.S.-China Climate and Energy: Cooperation or Competition?

Posted by Jan Prahm October 1st, 2010

By Michael Oko of World Resource Institute on September 29, 2010
Tags: china energy international policy renewable energy trade
Leading US-China Experts Discuss Tianjin and US-China Climate and Energy Issues.
The international climate meetings in Tianjin on October 4-9 will be a key moment for US-China relations on climate and energy. Today ChinaFAQs experts held a press [...]

Lively protest against coal and CO2-emissions

Posted by Jan Prahm June 5th, 2010

Today in front of the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, where currently the UNFCCC  Climate Change Talks Bonn June 2010 are taking place, Attac and BUND, the German branch of Friends of the Earth, symbolically stopped a coal truck driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German Minister of the Environment Norbert Röttgen. The aim [...]